Nearly 200 houses. Another apartment complex. New day care centers. Coming near you

The latest proposed developments, other construction projects and new businesses around the Treasure Valley:

Boise

The second phase of The Afton condominiums at 8th and River streets is complete, the Idaho Business Review reports.

Developer Michael Hormaechea’s team named the development The Afton in honor of former property owner Emory Afton, president of Wholesale Electric Parts Co.

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The Boise School District has applied to add a 4,400-square-foot cafeteria to Hillcrest Elementary School, 2045 S. Pond St. The existing kitchen will be remodeled into a classroom.

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The city of Boise is annexing 31.2 acres in the northwest part of the city. The annexed land, at 11532 W. Joplin Road, would be zoned M-2D/DA (heavy industrial with design review and a development agreement). Plans filed with the city show a proposed construction-contractor office, yard and shop.

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Mountain West Bank has opened its new Boise Financial Center inside the Plaza 121 building at 9th and Idaho streets. The site will house a branch and a commercial lending center that had been in the Hoff Building at 802 W. Bannock St. since 2006. Five people work and the branch and nine at the lending center, the bank said in a news release.

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Caldwell

Ball Ventures Ahlquist of Meridian plans a 114-acre project off Highway 20/26 and Smeed Parkway that will bring 1.4 million square feet of industrial and office space to Caldwell. The development, named the North Ranch Business Park, would also include 80,000 square feet of retail and medical office space.

The business park would include 13 buildings, including six “flex” buildings, which can be used for light industrial businesses or office spaces.

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Eagle

The Eagle Urban Renewal District is considering leasing out the Eagle Museum property at 67 E. State St. until it is sold.

The museum offices moved to the historic St. Matthew’s Catholic Church at the end of North First Street in downtown Eagle, part of the Eagle Landing Community Center.

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Star

NorthWest Development Co. of Meridian is seeking to build 84 apartments on 7 acres at 10040 W. State St., west of Highway 16.

The apartments would be in eight buildings. The project would include three commercial buildings along State Street, including an auto parts shop.

NorthWest Development seeks an annexation and rezone, a development agreement and a conditional use permit. The properties are owned by Connie Jo Porter and Craig Blanchard of Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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Hardway Land & Development of Star and Guy Jones of Alliance Building in Middleton propose 39 houses with a density of about 2 units per acre on 20 acres on the north side of Beacon Light Road and east of Wing Road.

Hardway and Jones have applied for an annexation and rezone. The subdivision would be called Torchlight Estates.

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Kuna

Carl Bader, the owner of a 7-acre farm on 750 S. Ten Mile Road, looks to rezone his land to residential to build 29 houses there.

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M3 Cos. requests approval to rezone 25 acres in Kuna and subdivide a total of 38 acres to allow for 116 houses.

The site is near the northeast corner of Cloverdale and Kuna Roads and is part of the greater Falcon Crest subdivision, which is slated to add over 2,000 houses to Kuna over the next several years.

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Meridian

The Meridian-based developer Ball Ventures Ahlquist is building a day care center called Ten Mile Academy at 1001 S. Sentinel Lane as part of the Ten Mile Crossing neighborhood..

The building is slated to cost $1.4 million and will include 7,500 square feet, according to permits.

Ten Mile Academy is owned by Gregory and Rachel Feltenberger of Meridian. Gregory Felternberger is CEO of the Idaho Urologic Institute.

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The Meridian Medical Arts Charter High School, 1789 Heritage Park Lane, is adding 2,085 square feet of classroom space to the 25,726-square-foot school.

The work is slated to cost $497,000, according to a building permit filed with the city.

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Nampa

High Mountain Storage, owned by Gary Hunemiller of Nampa, is building a 7,500 square-foot storage building and warehouse at 3630 E. Comstock Ave., off Garrity Boulevard south of Interstate 84.

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Around Idaho

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Tamarack Resort has opened the Village Market, a general store catering to homeowners’ and guests’ seasonal needs.

The market joins Clearwater Coffee Co. in one of six buildings under development at the Village at Tamarack. Visitors can get to the market and coffee shop through the Village at Tamarack grand staircase.

Upon completion later this year, the first phase of the Village at Tamarack will also be home to new restaurants, a wine bar and other retail businesses, along with 56 luxury residences on the upper floors, Tamarack said in a news release.

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A California company is the new owner of Canyon Park East and West, the two shopping centers along the Snake River Canyon rim at the entrance to Twin Falls, the Times-News reports.

Wood Investments Cos., of Costa Mesa, California, bought the properties from Geronimo LLC. Patrick Wood is Wood’s managing partner.

Canyon Park West includes an empty pad along the rim where a four-story Home2Suites hotel will be built. The hotel faced opposition from residents and local geologists over concerns about height and proximity to the canyon rim. Engineers for the hotel said the building would be safe, and not in danger of falling into the canyon. The City Council approved the project.

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Notable

Boise’s DaviesMoore advertising firm has changed its name to 116 & West: A Moore | Lodge Company.

Edward Moore, the founding partner and CEO, said the name change highlights longtime partner Carolyn Lodge, the chief operating officer. In a news release, he said 116 refers to the 116th line of longitude, which runs through Idaho, and the “West” reflects the agency’s growth into a firm with regional and national clients throughout the western U.S.

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Boise Cascade has named Nate Jorgensen, 55, the company’s new CEO.

Jorgensen, who has worked at Boise Cascade since 2015 and was most recently chief operating officer, succeeds Tom Corrick, who will retire March 6 after 37 years with the company, which employs 6,100 people.

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The Ada County Board of Commissioners has launched a series of four meetings, one for each of four quadrants separated by Fairview Avenue and Maple Grove Road, to talk with residents about growth. The first, covering the southeast quadrant, was held Jan. 9 The remaining three are:

▪ Northeast Ada County (northeast of Maple Grove and Fairview): 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 23, at Castle Hills Church of the Nazarene, 5707 W. Castle Drive.

▪ Northwest Ada County (northwest of Fairview and Maple Grove): 5:30 PM Thursday, March 5, at a venue to be determined.

▪ Southwest Ada County (southwest of Fairview and Maple Grove: 5:30 p.m. Thursday, March 19, at a venue to be determined.

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An Idaho credit union is merging with a Washington-based one, the Idaho Business Review reports. Icon Credit Union, based in Boise, has announced plans to merge with Horizon Credit Union, based in Spokane Valley, Washington.

Connie Miller, Icon’s CEO, is expected to serve as regional president.

The combined organization would have $1.4 billion in assets and 28 locations across Idaho, Oregon, Montana and Washington. Icon’s locations include branches in Boise, Meridian, Nampa and Weiser. Previously called Idahy Federal Credit Union, after the highway department employees who made up its constituency, the company adopted the name Icon in 2010, and in 2014, merged with Boise U.S. Employees Federal Credit Union.

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Idaho National Laboratory has received a one-year grant to set up a center to foster the creation of commercial products from technologies developed from research at the lab, modeled after and partnering with Trailhead Boise’s incubator space, the Idaho Business Review reports.

In homage, the space will be called Trailhead East @Idaho National Lab.

“There’s not a huge innovation ecosystem in Idaho Falls,” Jim Keating, commercialization and entrepreneurial programs manager for INL, told the Review. “We want to play an integral role.”

The project is receiving $175,000 through Practices to Accelerate the Commercialization of Technology (PACT) from the Department of Energy’s Office of Technology Transitions. INL and Trailhead Boise are making in-kind contributions worth $96,000.

Kate Talerico

Idaho Statesman

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Kate reports on growth, development and West Ada and Canyon County for the Idaho Statesman. She previously wrote for the Louisville Courier-Journal, the Center for Investigative Reporting and the Providence Business News. She has been published in The Atlantic and BuzzFeed News. Kate graduated from Brown University with a degree in urban studies.

John Sowell

Idaho Statesman

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Reporter John Sowell has worked for the Statesman since 2013. He covers business and growth issues. He grew up in Emmett and graduated from the University of Oregon. If you like seeing stories like this, please consider supporting our work with a digital subscription to the Idaho Statesman.